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@louisturner8842

4 жыл бұрын

Your the best! Ty

@Nightowl_IT

4 жыл бұрын

Neil has a big selection of hammers^^ Maybe there was something on the wire or it wasn't pure indium or it was way hotter? Did you use flux to solder? Which one? colophony?

@staffpette

4 жыл бұрын

Seems like a realy questionable site when I can not find info about pricing. Periodic Videos, please consider not partnering with these kind of sites.

@RuudP

4 жыл бұрын

@@staffpette i agree. it took me 10 minutes to find (hidden in the app info) that the course costs €18 - €205 that is a lot of money

@youkofoxy

4 жыл бұрын

Can we give Neil a hidraulic press? Preferably a automatic one.

"Its slightly poisonous, so people give it to Neil" Boy, Neil must have made some enemies during his secret agent days.

@pranamd1

4 жыл бұрын

Now I can't get the image of Neil with an umbrella and a trench coat out of my head.

@sidharthcs2110

4 жыл бұрын

Legend has it that , he poisoned the former Russian spy

@invisibledave

4 жыл бұрын

Neil has an entire collection of coronaviruses at home too.

@marcusyale3265

4 жыл бұрын

professor honeydew and beaker

@gustavgnoettgen

4 жыл бұрын

Only the best friends. He's Neil, and also he's Neil.

"We can't do Plutonium in Neil's lab... Yet." I'm concerned for him.

@kuravax

4 жыл бұрын

Joshua Platt I’m more concerned his hammer would break

@theshuman100

4 жыл бұрын

@@kuravax niel gonna hammer the plutonium and blow up half the town

@KatanaBart

4 жыл бұрын

Zinc is by far the best element. I also like Plutonium. It's just fun to say: Plutonium. How's your plutonium today? Fine, thank you.

@asandax6

11 ай бұрын

Don't worry Neil is the hammer the radiation out plutonium first.

This whole video has some almost Monty Python quality to it, with really funny lines about Neil being said in a really deadpan way. "Neil has a big selection of hammers" "[Indium] is a slightly poisonous element, and people give it to him rather than having dispose of it themselves" "And once he got it out, being Neil, he couldn't resist the hammer again" "Neil is a huge believer in nitric acid"

@fft2020

3 жыл бұрын

One of the funniest periodicvideos

@tedkorff971

3 жыл бұрын

"And so we can't do plutonium in Neil's lab, yet..."

@Guru_1092

2 жыл бұрын

You can't forget: "Neil has a big selection of hammers"

@kenhtonghop1911

2 жыл бұрын

I have indium pure quantity 26kg

@kikoisniko_roblox

Ай бұрын

does the flame contain Rb?

To answer Brady's question: Caesium - From the Latin caesius, meaning sky blue Chlorine - From the Greek chloros, meaning pale green Chromium - From the Greek chroma, meaning colour Indium - Named after the indigo line in its spectrum Iodine - From the Greek iodes, meaning violet Iridium - From the Greek iris, meaning rainbow Praseodymium - From the Greek prasios didymos, meaning green twin (the other twin is Neodymium) Rhodium - From the Greek rhodon, meaning rose Rubidium - From the Latin rubidius, meaning deepest red Thallium - From the Greek thallos, meaning green twig Zirconium - From the Arabic zargun, meaning gold colour

@Ikaros---

4 жыл бұрын

You missed 2 really obvious ones. Gold and Silver.

@Markle2k

4 жыл бұрын

@@Ikaros--- Aren't you confusing the tail and the dog?

@stupidmustelid

4 жыл бұрын

@@Ikaros--- I didn't count those because the colours are named after the element, not vice versa. I did somehow miss Rubidium though, so I'll add that.

@Chaoticfulisade

4 жыл бұрын

@@stupidmustelid Arsenic, named after arsenikon for yellow, in greek. Originally adopted from the persian word zarnikh. Cyanide, due to the cyanosis it caused as a poison, a blue colour pigment to the skin, due to lack of oxygen.

@stupidmustelid

4 жыл бұрын

@@Chaoticfulisade I was almost going to include Arsenic, but I decided not to because arsenikon refers to the name of the mineral, not the colour, which is used to create the yellow pigment orpiment. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the yellow colour comes from the sulfur, not the arsenic. As for cyanide, that's a compound, not an element.

I’m now convinced that when I’m older I want to be a Neil

@scorinth

4 жыл бұрын

I wonder how you get that job. What kind of degree do you need?

@altamashiqbalraza

4 жыл бұрын

I want to be kaku😁

@velysean7031

4 жыл бұрын

@@scorinth probably chemistry atleast

@spoochie11

4 жыл бұрын

You'll need a hammer.

@bobcunningham6953

4 жыл бұрын

@@scorinth Though a degree always helps, I have known several excellent senior lab techs in various areas (chemistry, physics, electronics, biology) who reached that level without a bachelors or higher degree , though most had taken some classes after high school, or had been in the military. (Some did get degrees after becoming a senior tech, but they didn't have it before then.) The main common attributes they shared were curiosity & persistence (investigation), discipline (safety), logical thinking (process), and decent writing skills (documentation).

Love the immediate music cuts whenever the coins were slammed :))

@puupipo

4 жыл бұрын

YES. As soon as I heard the music fade in I started hoping that the music would cut when the hammer hits the coin, and then when it did it felt so satisfying haha.

@Sheithan

4 жыл бұрын

Absolute comedy gold.

@amrubaian

3 жыл бұрын

Had to re-watch the video because I was laughing so hard.

@Rye-Bread

2 жыл бұрын

yes

Scientifically proven: "when you have a hammer, the entire world becomes a nail"

@theblackbaron4119

4 жыл бұрын

Stop! *Hammertime*!

@alecnolastname4362

4 жыл бұрын

@@theblackbaron4119 Can't touch this

@matteopascoli

4 жыл бұрын

“And you become a Neil”

@francismuir9313

4 жыл бұрын

@@matteopascoli "And then Neil anneals non-nails."

@TWX1138

4 жыл бұрын

@@matteopascoli Are you calling him a big softie?

2:00 "he hit the side with not the queen's picture on it, out of respect" whenever i hear a british person talk about the queen in respectful ways, i'm never sure whether they are being sarcastic or not?! xD

@cycklist

4 жыл бұрын

Nor are we Brits.

@TWX1138

4 жыл бұрын

I'm reasonably sure that for the country that produced Oscar Wilde, George Orwell, Terry Gilliam, Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, and Neil Gaiman, it's a bit of both.

@gordonrichardson2972

4 жыл бұрын

Sir Martin would never be sarcastic, he's a knight...

@cycklist

4 жыл бұрын

@@TWX1138 Gilliam is American though.

@sarowie

4 жыл бұрын

@@TWX1138 With Orwell, it could be discussed if he was "produced in britian". But a product of British colonialism he for sure was.

"hey look another Periodic Videos Video, now how old is this one, 4 years?" *2 hours ago* "What"

@brunos6599

4 жыл бұрын

We shifting in the timelines like MAD

@Fourside__

4 жыл бұрын

"Lets upvote before even watching it"

@markmaurer6370

3 жыл бұрын

I'm from the future and you're going to look so silly for writing thiiiiiiiisssssssss......

@Rye-Bread

2 жыл бұрын

a year after this comment...

@glarynth

24 күн бұрын

Yep 4 years

"Being Neil, he couldnt resist to hammer it again." Classic Neil

@largol33t1

4 жыл бұрын

Well, Neil wouldn't be Neil if he didn't hammer it again! 😁

@aidanf2610

4 жыл бұрын

Classic Neil

@disht2

4 жыл бұрын

"ah again"

One of the things I've always loved about this channel is how that if something fails, you just own it and talk about it, instead of the failure ending up on the cutting room floor.

@klausschmidt982

4 жыл бұрын

Failure is an important part of science. It's really great of them to show these.

@joshuarosen6242

4 жыл бұрын

I completely agree and that is because Sir Martyn is a true scientist. The scientific method is nothing without failure.

@tantraman93

4 жыл бұрын

A sign of mental maturity. (and a true educator)

@mitchellwodach2215

2 жыл бұрын

Learning from failure is the best learning

I love how every video starts with the exact same phrase: "[Element/Chemical compound] is a really fascinating material."

@1mctous

4 жыл бұрын

Followed by "because..." for the length of the video.

@KanishQQuotes

3 жыл бұрын

Because science is fascinating, and someone who knows science is even more fascinating

@DouglasZwick

3 жыл бұрын

They should make an April Fool video that's about fifteen seconds long and it opens with the professor saying "[chemical] is a very boring material" and then just a few moments of them kind of doing mundane stuff with it where it doesn't react.

@gatyandsawagainwowie

2 жыл бұрын

except for protactinium and some other ones

George Washington: "Not quite as pretty as Queen Elizabeth".

@snackreaper

4 жыл бұрын

I love how the professor is British to the core

@OmarBKar-sw1ij

4 жыл бұрын

@@snackreaper i thought he was russian

@elevown

4 жыл бұрын

@@OmarBKar-sw1ij I think that his family was from their but not sure - I remember some connection i think

@bernardmontemor

4 жыл бұрын

@@OmarBKar-sw1ij He is of Polish descent, that's why you can say that he's Russian.

@snackreaper

4 жыл бұрын

@Omar B. Kar he can definitely speak Russian he did it in a diamond video

Professor: The world's supply of Indium is quickly depleting! Neil: Hides hoard of Indium.

when im old i wanna be the level of mysterious genius as niel

@gabor6259

4 жыл бұрын

*Neil

I'm liking how neil is developing a character, silence and some comedy behind it

3:00 Neil smiling! :-O :-)

@phu010

4 жыл бұрын

That's because he's cornered the market in Indium and is planning to hold the world to ransom. Muh-ha-ha!

I love how you play the national anthem when the coin is placed and stop it when hit

Weird that there has never been a video on Glass on the channel while it is in every single video and arguably the most important thing in chemistry. Must be pretty amazing stuff.

I liked how the music stopped immediately when he hit it

My GUESS is that there was antimony in the indium and antimony will readily alloy with gold at temperature. This may have facilitated the alloying of the indium by making fresh reaction surfaces on the metal.

@Photosynthesisbeing

4 жыл бұрын

Only old boys are gonna know this stuff.

@jibcot8541

4 жыл бұрын

I like it when their experiments fail (seems to happen a lot) , makes me realise that even though they are very smart people they're still human and fallible.

Can’t do plutonium... yet.. me: Yes!!!!! I can’t wait!

@Sirenhound

4 жыл бұрын

1.21 gigawatts!

@ec1628

4 жыл бұрын

I had to rewind that a couple of times. Loved it

@ModernProspector

3 жыл бұрын

Neil, with his big selection of hammers and love of hammering things then add plutonium.

@ryans6280

Жыл бұрын

I've worked behind 4 ft. Leaded glass on Tc99m... With manipulators... Very interesting but after a few months it's still... Just a job

This professor is a national treasure. He combines remarkable insight with a little humour. His work-rate producing and updating these videos for (I think) over a decade is impressive. Thank you, and thank you Brady for curating this series. Anyone else agree we should nominate this guy for a knighthood for science communication? No idea what his CV/publication history is like, but he deserves to be recognised for these videos alone.

@liquorgunsandrhetoric

10 ай бұрын

Coming back here now to tell you that The Professor has indeed been knighted.

The music editing is hilari-THWACK!

I love how the music stops when the coin is whacked hahah

"And Neil's going to have some real fun." *cut to Neil smashing sample with hammer*

@MakeItWithCalvin

4 жыл бұрын

Knowing Neil it would be a silent video!

I giggled so much through the first three minutes of this, then went and watched those three minutes again! Wonderful! You have SO much fun with your science. I think that's my favorite thing about these videos and about your way of discussing the elements and chemistry in general. You've been doing this for ages, but you still approach every experiment, every video, with such a sense of excitement and wonder that anyone watching just can't help but be engaged.

I absolutely love watching these remade Periodic Table videos. They are priceless.

6:35 "You've got it, baby. You've got it." Never thought I'd hear that in a chemistry video. 🤣🤣🤣

@TVIDS123

4 жыл бұрын

Best bit

Thankyou! Been waiting forever for more videos! I love this channel

Im very happy to see new content from this channel. Whether it's stories, experiments, or regular Elemental Videos, it tends to quite interesting and entertaining. I like that there's the mix of history and trying out new things. This crew does a solid job onnthis channel.

Wow what a coincidence! - Just yesterday i was searching for info about indium and today i found this video. Sheets of indium foil were under some large Power MOSFET Blocks in an eye surgery medical laser i took apart recently. I thought they were aluminum foil but after a quick search i found out indium foil is used as an alternative to thermal grease heat transfer compound. Thanks for uploading !!!

Indium is one of my favourite chemical elements! 😍 Very soft, very beautiful and silvery, very inert in normal atmosphere (it does not oxidise), and gives off a beautiful indigo flame.

@Guru_1092

4 жыл бұрын

Also it's squishy! :D

Some say that looking directly at his smile is deadly, and that water spontaneously boils within 2 feet of his body. All we know is... he's called Neil.

These videos, from periodic videos, and many other chemistry channels, have peaked my interest for chemistry, so much that I have decided to go to university and study this very interesting subject ❤️ we will see where my journey into the world of chemistry will end, but it will begin this September. Thank you so much for your time and effort, It has not gone unnoticed ⚗️

I’m really enjoying these videos, thank you for all the great content! I took some Chemistry courses back in college and find that even for the lay person with no background, these element videos would be fascinating! The wonder of our natural world is so very very interesting! Thank you.

The patriotic music cutting out with the hammer gets me every time 🤣🤣

Brady is on FIRE this year... so many great and classic videos!

1:56 "Go-od save the *BANG*.......Queen!" :D :D

I read a book from the 1920s that talked about mica in radios. Pure mica was used as a tuner and supplies of it were starting to run out. The book said that it was a problem, but that a replacement would be found. It was found in silicon compounds. Today, radios with tuners of mica are antiques and electronics use silicon to tune radios. I suspect that in the future, a replacement for indium will be found.

This is such a great channel. Thanks professor. Hi Neil! 👍

"Neil has a selection of indium" "Neil has a selection of hammers" "I'll turn him into indium, a poisonous piece of indium. Then I'll put that piece into a box. And I'll put that box into another box. And I'll mail that box to myself - and when it arrives, I'LL SMASH IT WITH A HAMMER!" Points if you get the reference

@alexandermathers832

2 жыл бұрын

Emperors new groove ofc

Oh man, it is so cool to see you guys still in action. Professor, thank you for your dedication to sharing knowledge. I really enjoy watching you discuss the various elements and the history of them. This is one of my favorite channels :)

So where's indium come from? In 1990 I was on a tour of the Kidd Creek Metallurgical Site in Timmins, Ontario where ore from the Kidd Creek Mine is processed to extract zinc and copper. Part of this metallurgical site was the Indium Plant, a small scale operation where this element is refined as a byproduct. As you saw in the video, it's quite soft, softer than lead or solder. Although not mentioned here, I think it's also used in making light emitting diodes.

Excellent video as always. Thanks guys 👍

Can we have a video on Neil's hammers?

@ChillAssTurtle

4 жыл бұрын

Neil's Hammerarium.

A similar color can be obtained by melting a fairly thin piece of copper wire with an arc of 15000V and 10mA. The copper melts and beads up into a ball which begins to incandesce as the arc seems to more evenly distribute across the bead, the end result being that you can see the blue from the arc, the red from the incandescent copper and (if done right)where the two meet, a halo of rather reagal looking imitation violet.

thank you brady and thank you sir Poliakoff. i have loved this channel for years now

People will study the Professor's hair in the future and discover a bizarre cocktail of elements.

@davidbergmann8948

4 жыл бұрын

🍄🍆🍄🍆🍄

@bsythdd4754

4 жыл бұрын

That's probably where the prof keeps every element on earth. Shhhh

Hey that’s a Connecticut quarter! You slammed my home state!

@TWX1138

4 жыл бұрын

Well it is basically a suburb of New York City at this point.

@bornofashes

4 жыл бұрын

I bet he saved that one because it has the best back.

@adamg1058

4 жыл бұрын

And all I'm thinking is "I'm glad it's not a Rhode Island quarter".

@glarynth

4 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't have minded seeing an imprint of the Charter Oak.

@daveg1674

4 жыл бұрын

Yay the Charter Oak!

LOL the music abruptly stops when Neil hits the coins with a hammer, nice touch

Finally my favourite element! I have been waiting for this video for years!

Alright! A Connecticut quarter! One of my favorites!

Made my morning!

Love all your videos!!!!!! Thanks to all of you!!!! Still watching from Newfoundland,Canada.........learning new things and have fun doing it!!!!!!.....Again thank you all for the info and laughs!!!!!!!😁

Thanks for making another video and thanks to everyone willing to be featured.

I just love the way that the music cuts out when the hammer makes contact. Beautiful editing.

Awwwww it is over already.... :(. Please, more uploads asap. Much love from Boise Idaho.

@pacificcoastpiper3949

4 жыл бұрын

Louis Turner hello from Okanogan county Washington

@louisturner8842

4 жыл бұрын

Pacific coast piper, I assume being rather remote northern central wa, this recent outbreak has not affected your community yet. Been threw many times myself, I am dual citizen and spend a fair amount of time in BC, CA.

@pacificcoastpiper3949

4 жыл бұрын

Louis Turner only one person

@pacificcoastpiper3949

4 жыл бұрын

Louis Turner how fare you ?

@pacificcoastpiper3949

4 жыл бұрын

Louis Turner I hope you stay healthy and safe. Your Canadian kin too. My best friend is from Alberta

I'm a little surprised that the professor was surprised at how easy it was to get an impression of a coin on the indium. Up until early in the reign of Elizabeth I, all English coins were hammered in much the same way, with "negative" dies used to bring the image up on the coinage blank. It wasn't until the middle of the 17th century that they stopped making any hammered coins.

Thank you for the interesting video on indium. I have two concerns related to misinformation:1) Indium is not poisonous. This is easily fact checked with a safety data sheet from any supplier. You are not working with indium dust from a grinding operation.2) Indium supply is not running out. Prices are historically low due to oversupply. For more information please check the U.S.G.S. Recycling materials is always a healthy long-term strategy, and indium has a robust reclaim loop in place.

@Loganmanko

3 жыл бұрын

glad to see this comment this should get more attention

can we get tour of this lab or even whole department of chemistry?

Dont use the hammer directly ... put one of them on the coin and a second person hits the back of that hammer ... a much better way to "direct" the force onto the coin / blob of Indium.

@xenonram

4 жыл бұрын

What?

@QqJcrsStbt

4 жыл бұрын

Some hammers should not be hit with hammers, they shatter.

@MolecularMachine

3 жыл бұрын

Be sure to use rubber mallets, not metal hammers for that.

I love this channel. So pure and fascinating.

Few days back I had a dream where I saw a new video of Periodic Videos on an element with Dr Pete License. Such a surprise that the dream is actually true, wanted to see him since a long time. He still has the beautiful, young smile

I can officially say that I have learned something new today 🤷‍♂️

@QqJcrsStbt

4 жыл бұрын

Every day is a learning day.

Thanks sir martyn!

This is fascinating! I’ve never known anything about indium but now I do so thank you! Very interesting.

Nice video thx professor! I worked processing indium tin oxide thin films in university and gotta say it is an awesome compound but as professor said, it is no longer sustainable, so now I'm working with SnO2 and ZnO compounds and im still fascinated.

Probably the first time I see Neal smiling :)

@steamer1

4 жыл бұрын

3:00

I could watch Periodic videos all day! I can relate to Neil, i am a lab technician and i know what kind of job he has! I have lots of respect for Neil. I take my hat off in Neil's honour!

Thanks Professor! I prepare indium in my line of work of over twenty years.

May I say, that video was impressive.

Please stay safe professor 🙏 maybe stay at home in this period. 💜

@tallawyerblues

4 жыл бұрын

The Brits are going for "herd immunity" so not social distancing...

I really needed this video!

"Out of respect."

"...but we can't do plutonium in Neil's lab - yet." What a tantalizing thing to say! :-D

Indigo- derived from Greek Ινδικον (Indikon) meaning "Indic, from India" So Indium is named after India! 😃😃

@ivx8345

4 жыл бұрын

I love the comments on this channel, either learning something new or laughing at funny remarks. Keep it up fellow science-lovers!

Wow I remember watching all of the videos with Pete in them way back when!

briliant, thank you!

Prof: There isnt enough Indium.. Meanwhile Neil: Smashing Indium with a hammer on his desk..

“Neal has a big selection of hammers”. Something we all just intuitively suspected.

FELICITACIONES P-V TEAM!!!. Sus videos son ilustrativos. Saludos desde KITO-EQUADOR

Thanks Prof. and Niel and everyone else too!

Why do I get the feeling that Neil easily could build a fushion reactor out of things from an ordinary hardware store in just 7 hours?

@bean6191

4 жыл бұрын

What's a fushion reactor?

@ytv31

4 жыл бұрын

@@bean6191 *fusion.

@roberttelarket4934

4 жыл бұрын

He has done it already and waiting to detonate Buckingham Palace just as you can see him practicing by hammering Elizabeth!

@roberttelarket4934

4 жыл бұрын

He has done it already and waiting to detonate Buckingham Palace just as you can see him practicing by hammering Elizabeth!

Where to get the wonderful tie like professor?? It's amazing ..

@CheshireTomcat68

4 жыл бұрын

Ebay is full of them, I just looked.

Great video thanks for sharing with us.

I keep coming back to this video... I've watched it so many times and it still makes me laugh every time.

If we ever run out of Indium, we can just go get some more from India!

Thanks Chemist Einstein

Indium tin makes a great super low mp solder, pure indium makes awesome high vacuum gaskets that double as electrical feed through. I've also used indium for relatively bright violet fireworks stars, but it was a bit expensive compared with copper strontium mixes. Used to use it for sealing laser mirrors and for a heat sink gasket for high wattage laser diodes.

I saw a video (Styropyro was making another insane laser) just the other day in which Indium was used in attaching an object to a heat sink: a sheet in Indium foil was placed between the object and the heat sink, and the softness of the Indium allowed it conform and fill in all of the micro-irregularities of the surface of each item so as to afford a much better contact, and thus heat transfer, between the heat generating object and the heat sink.

the hammering the coin was very Monty Python-esque scene

@brunos6599

4 жыл бұрын

Oy! I know a guy who has a very similar name in a continent that it's absurdly rare and he doesn't know what it means and Google doesn't help. Would you by any chance know more about it?

My immediate thought on "what will our grandchildren do" for displays, was "use graphene!"

@user-ko7lz3kr1d

4 жыл бұрын

You're right, we'll find a solution to it eventually. Even if it's not graphene, it'll be something.

@omikronweapon

4 жыл бұрын

let them use cake.

@tarmaque

4 жыл бұрын

Actually, there has been research into light-emitting plastics that glow under electrical stimulation in various colors. These plastics work on a completely different process from a LCD or OLED matrix. They could theoretically give us fully flexible screens (such as has been shown in various Science Fiction media) and even fully transparent screens. Or a combination of both. It would not only negate the need for glass layers, but also for the cathode and anode of a traditional LCD display or OLED display. Pretty cool.

@Beeblebroxologist

4 жыл бұрын

@@user-ko7lz3kr1d There's a lot of work around ferric-chloride intercalated graphene; it's a better conductor and more transparent than ITO, they're just working out the manufacturing of screen-sized elements.

@user-ko7lz3kr1d

4 жыл бұрын

@@Beeblebroxologist What it sounds like is we might get replacements before we even run out of indium, so we might just stop using indium all together in the near future.

I am so glad that i failed integrated science freshman year of highschool. If i hadn't failed and been required to do credit recovery i would have never discovered this channel and discovered my interest in chemistry.

Thoroughly enjoy these videos. Hilarious and educational. Thankyou.

10:40 Quote:"...and then Neil said...." Neil can speak? ^^

@pedroff_1

4 жыл бұрын

I thought Niel was like schnitzel from Chodwer...

I read the title as iridium.

@gordonrichardson2972

4 жыл бұрын

Only one pixel difference (depending on the font).

Best Neil episode yet! Neil is like a humble god robot alien being sent to improve peoples lives. But collects Indium as a hobby. *Cue Neil smiling lovingly at a pile of Indium on his mental place from his magnificent winged back chair* Neil's adventures are great!

Something about super malleable metals is just so fun, that + the indigo color makes this one of my new favorites.